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Diana was born on July 1, 1961, in Norfolk, England, into a rich and important family.
When she was six, her parents separated. She later said her childhood was very unhappy.
At school she was shy, and she failed her exams twice.
She dreamed of becoming a ballet dancer, but she grew too tall.
Then, in London, she found a job she loved: helping at a kindergarten.
In 1981 she married Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth's oldest son and the future king.
The wedding took place at Saint Paul's Cathedral, and about 750 million people watched it on television.
Diana was just twenty.
The shy kindergarten helper was now a princess, and soon the whole world called her Princess Diana.
Wherever she went, photographers followed her.
Diana had two sons, William and Harry.
She wanted them to have a normal life, so she took them to fast-food restaurants and theme parks.
They stood in line like everyone else.
She also used her fame to help others.
In 1987, many people were afraid to touch anyone with AIDS, but Diana shook a patient's hand.
She wore no gloves, and that one handshake helped change how millions of people thought about the illness.
But her marriage was not happy, and in 1996 Charles and Diana divorced.
In 1997 she walked along a safe path through a minefield in Angola.
She wanted to show the world how dangerous these hidden bombs were.
On August 31, 1997, Diana died in a car crash in Paris, as her driver sped away from photographers.
She was only thirty-six.
People left a sea of flowers outside her home in London.
About two and a half billion people around the world watched her funeral on television.
A few months later, 122 countries signed a treaty to ban landmines.
Diana once said that she wanted to be 'a queen of people's hearts.'
For millions of people, she was.
